Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Smart Art (Ringing In the New Year Edition)

 


New Year's Eve couldn't come sooner! After all, it's been 365 days of rising prices, heightened international tensions, increasing inequality, burgeoning racism, growing sexism, skyrocketing attacks on the LGBTQ community, and fascism in the ascendency. Any downward trends? Yeah, myself, because all of it has left me down in the dumps. Funny how that works. Not that I've entirely given up hope. I mean, 2026 just gotta be better! There's no place to go but up (assuming prices, international tensions, inequality, racism, sexism, attacks on the LGBTQ community, and fascism all go down.) So what's the best way to celebrate the deep-sixing of 2025 and the welcome arrival (and hopeful course correction) of 2026? To best answer that question I went to a seance and asked the medium to contact birthday boy Henri Matisse (above), who suggested that at the stroke of midnight, we all start...



...dancing!

Happy New Year

from Shadow of a Doubt

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16 comments:

  1. David M. Gascoigne,December 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM

    Yes, it hasn’t been a good year in so many ways, and surely it must get better. I’ll join hands and dance the new year in!

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  2. Moving with MitchellDecember 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM

    Dancing naked in the woods! Yes!

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    1. KirkDecember 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM

      Best check the thermometer fist.

      Happy New Years, Mitchell.

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  3. AndrewDecember 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM

    Optimism is surely a human trait. We will be optimistic about 2026. Happy New Year, and I hope it is not too cold for you.

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    1. KirkDecember 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM

      I've lived in Northeast Ohio all my life, so I'm pretty used to the cold. Happy New Years, Andrew.

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  4. BoudDecember 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM

    Shall we ,shall we, shall we, shall we, shall we join the dance! Happy New Year, Kirk and thank you for your friendship this last year.

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  5. Debra She Who SeeksDecember 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM

    Here's to a much better 2026! Happy New Year, Kirk!

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    1. KirkDecember 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM

      Thank you, Debra, and a Happy New Year to you.

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  6. ParnassusDecember 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM

    Hello Kirk, I am a militant non-dancer, so I guess I have no hope at all.

    Happy New Year, anyway!
    --Jim

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    1. KirkDecember 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM

      Snapping your fingers might suffice, Jim. Happy New Year!

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  7. Linda's Relaxing LairDecember 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM

    Thank you so much for all you share! Happy New Year to you.

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    1. KirkDecember 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM

      Thank you, Linda, and a Happy New Year to you!

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  8. AnankaJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:35 AM

    Happy New Year Kirk. Let's hope 2026 is better for us all :-D

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    1. KirkJanuary 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM

      Ananka, I do hope 2026 ends up on a healthy note for you.

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